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Telephone:
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What's New
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 9, 2000
New Executive Director Appointed by College of Nurses
(TORONTO) -- The largest of Ontario’s 21 health regulatory colleges, the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO), has a new Executive Director. Anne Coghlan, RN, will assume the leadership of CNO after an exhaustive nation-wide search.
President of CNO’s governing Council from 1994 to 1996 and former director of professional practice and chief of nursing at Markham-Stouffville Hospital, Ms. Coghlan has been a senior management consultant in the health care division of Ernst and Young Consulting Services Inc. in Toronto since 1996.
The Executive Director acts as the Registrar and chief executive officer of the College, which governs the practice of 138,000 Registered Nurses (RNs) and Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) across Ontario. CNO is mandated to protect the public interest in nursing care by registering nurses, and by developing and enforcing standards of practice which all Ontario nurses are obliged to follow.
Ms. Coghlan will be only the fourth Executive Director in the College’s 37-year history. She succeeds Margaret Risk, who served the College for over 17 years.
"This is a very high profile position in the nursing profession, provincially, nationally and internationally," said current CNO President Mary MacLeod, RN, of Hamilton. "There were a high number of excellent candidates. In Anne Coghlan, we feel we’ve found someone who’s highly respected in the profession, someone with wide nursing experience and a demonstrated commitment to the concept of self-regulation. We’re fortunate that she was eager to come back to CNO."
Anne Coghlan received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Toronto in 1981, followed by an M.Sc.N. from the same university in 1985. After receiving her B.Sc.N, she became a staff nurse at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, continuing to work there part-time during her graduate studies. Shortly after being awarded her Master’s degree, she became a Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist at the hospital, moving on to Markham-Stouffville in 1993. She currently holds a cross appointment with the faculty of nursing at the U. of T, and has teaching experience both there and at Ryerson Polytechnic University.
"Influencing the quality of nursing care has always been a theme of my work," said Ms. Coghlan. "The chance to lead an organization that both supports nurses in their practice and advocates for the public’s access to quality care was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up."
"I think there are three major challenges for CNO at this time in its history," she said. "One is to be an employer of choice, to attract and retain the best people possible to lead the profession. The second is to continue to be a pioneer in self-regulation, and the third is to make sure that our programs and processes are relevant and fully accessible to the individual nurse. To achieve those things, my first priority will be to fully familiarize myself with what we’re doing and how we’re doing it. Then I want to talk with CNO staff, with the nurses and public representatives on Council, and with practising nurses and stakeholders across the province, to get their ideas on how we can best achieve our goals. I’m very excited about the work ahead."
Ms. Coghlan assumes her new position at CNO on May 1, 2000.
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For more information, please contact:
Cindy Campbell
Manager, Communications
College of Nurses of Ontario
ccampbell@cnomail.org
416 928-0900, Ext. 6309
or 1 800 387-5526, Ext. 6309
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